Millville, New Jersey

Millville is a city in Cumberland County, New Jersey. A sawmill, "Shingle Landing", was built in the area in 1720. In 1790, Joseph Smith and Henry Drinker purchased 24,000 acres of land and build a dam to power Union Estates Company lumber mills along the Maurice River, and the town was incorporated in 1801 under the name "Millville", a reference to its main industry. In 1806, the township's first glass factory was built, and the New Jersey Mills was constructed in 1850, employing 600 people by 1870 and 1,200 in 1910. In 1936, the first senior citizens retirement colony in the United States, "Roosevelt Park", was built in Millville. Millville also became home to a military airfield during World War II, and, while the city suffered from deindustrialization during the 1970s and 1980s, it was revitalized during the late 1990s. In 2018, Millville had a population of 27,633 people.